Some odd and interesting monocentric designs

David Shafer

doi:10.1117/12.624556

18 August 2005 Some odd and interesting monocentric designs

David Shafer

Proceedings Volume 5865, Tribute to Warren Smith: A Legacy in Lens Design and Optical Engineering; 586508 (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.624556
Event: Optics and Photonics 2005, 2005, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

This paper will be a survey of some designs I did about 30 years ago, where all the surfaces are monocentric or are monocentric with some added flat surfaces. This would seem like a severe design constraint, to have all the surfaces have the same center of curvature, but a surprising number of interesting and useful designs can be done despite that. They are all either catadioptric or all-reflective and range from the very simple to the rather complex. I will first look at designs that are exactly monocentric, and then move on to designs that also have some flat surfaces. In monocentric designs with the stop at the center of curvature and a monocentric image surface, the performance is the same for any field angle.

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David Shafer "Some odd and interesting monocentric designs", Proc. SPIE 5865, Tribute to Warren Smith: A Legacy in Lens Design and Optical Engineering, 586508 (18 August 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.624556

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